Question about tangs

[andrzadr000]

Are powder brown/ gold rim very susceptible to ich like powder blues are? I know all tangs are susceptible to ich but some are more some are less.

 

[kw22]

I believe that powder brown tangs are even more prone having white spot! (ich) The Gold rimmed surgeonfish is the same as the powder blue BTW - A 72 gallon is to small long term.

 

[Mr. Brooks]

Yes.

 

[andrzadr000]

I just oredered a 315 gallon tank so I should have enough space

 

[triggreef]

None are susceptible if you quarantine correctly.

I short cut quarantine quite a bit & still kept ich out of both my tanks. Combined I have a total of 6 tangs. No ich. You don't have to live with it. It's cheaper in the long run to qt.

 

[kw22]

In a 315 gallon,you could have a whitecheek and a powder blue .I would add the powder blue last.Powder Browns do not do well in captivity.And I agree with the above,make sure to quarantine all new additions!

 

[Dmorty217]

All fish are succeptable to ich if not QTed. Acanthurus tangs are especially prone to it and are often one of the first fish to show ich in a tank

 

[Kearnel]

I had a powder brown tang for a while but unfortunately it did succumb to ich, did everything right or so I thought but shortly after being placed in the dt it just exploded with ich. The other inhabitants got it as well, some worse than others, strange thing was the others were able to fight it off but the powder just couldn't do it.

 

[Dmorty217]

My fish have been fighting off ich for the last few months, but it always comes back so I tore my DT apart and put all my fish into QT and am treating with chloroquine phosphate and leaving the DT fallow for 12 wks so sometime around thanksgiving I will have fish in my DT again. Lesson learned is to QT and QT properly the first time, everytime. Short cuts do nothing to help you in the long term and anything wet can potentially bring disease into a otherwise healthy system

 

[ca1ore]

I've decided that the more I think I understand about how ich behaves in my tanks, the less I actually seem to know. I also have it in my display, but it never progresses beyond a few periodic spots on the Achilles and an occasional one on my Hippo, and it's been that way almost since I first set up this tank back in October. I am 'prepared' to fallow the tank if I have to, but as of now it has not reached that point.

While I do think any fish can get ich, the handful of ich-magnet tangs are particularly susceptible (Achilles, Powder Brown, Powder Blue, Gold Rim and Hippo) and MUST be quarantined - and not a quick QT either.

 

[Dmorty217]

I've decided that the more I think I understand about how ich behaves in my tanks, the less I actually seem to know. I also have it in my display, but it never progresses beyond a few periodic spots on the Achilles and an occasional one on my Hippo, and it's been that way almost since I first set up this tank back in October. I am 'prepared' to fallow the tank if I have to, but as of now it has not reached that point.

While I do think any fish can get ich, the handful of ich-magnet tangs are particularly susceptible (Achilles, Powder Brown, Powder Blue, Gold Rim and Hippo) and MUST be quarantined - and not a quick QT either.

I'm with you on this, the more I think I know actually seems to work against me. Hence why I have essentially started over after 2.5 yrs of having a tank up. (1.5 in current DT)

 

[andrzadr000]

What size would a good qt for tangs be?

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Bob Fenner recommends choosing a powder brown over gold rim/white cheek due to formers ability to adapt to captive environment easier than the latter.

 

[kw22]

I would personally recommend you get 30 gallon for QT - 20 gallon is the minimum.

And corals addiction - Maybe that is usually the case,I am aware of 3 people that I know that had tanks and added a powder brown and it didn't do well.But 2 of them then got a whitecheek/gold rimmed and 1 did great and the other did okay.It could have been down to tankmates as well though

 

[Dmorty217]

What size would a good qt for tangs be?

A 20L is better than a 29g. I use a 55,75 and currently a 210g.

 

[GroktheCube]

A 40B is an awesome relatively cheap QT for larger/multiple fish if you have room for one.

 

[andrzadr000]

I plan to buy all my tangs at the same time so they don't develop territorys and become aggressive to each other. Would I be able to qt 5 tangs in a 40.

Also what do you guys think on these tangs

Achilles tang
Yellow tang
Chevron
White cheeks


These would be going in to a 315 6ft long 3' wide 28" high

 

[DDon]

Make sure you read up on the achilles tang. They are beautiful but difficult (considered expert only). As far as 5 tangs in a 40b qt, not sure. That is quite a few big fish and water quality will be difficult to maintain. You also may end up with a lot of aggression because of crowding or maybe not much because of same reason. Might be better to do a couple at a time and add from least aggressive to most aggressive. I would not qt an achilles with 4 other tangs though.

 

[Holsteiner]

Would definitely add the Achilles last and we QT'd ours by himself. We've got our Achilles over 3 years ago and is by far the most aggressive (serial murderer) fish I've had in my 20 years of reef keeping.

 

[andrzadr000]

Ok so ill qt from least aggressive to most 2 at a time, the achilles last , so what makes the achilles so hard to keep? Very prone to getting sick? or just a serial murderer? Is it worth it to get one?